Empowering Farmer’s Group in Increasing Avocado Seeds Through Grafting Technique and Using Organic Fertilizers in Watuaji Jepara Indonesia

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10.2991/978-2-38476-228-6_23How to use a DOI?

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Farmer; Grafting; Avocado; Organic Fertilizers

Abstract

Watuaji Village is a village that has the main natural product avocado, but a few farmers can reproduce the seeds of avocado. Some societies have wide land, and business cow farms or goat farms. Those livelihood societies are potential assets that can be managed and be objects of community empowerment programs. This study aimed to find the results and describe the effectiveness of the community empowerment program for the farmer’s group in Watuaji village, Jepara, Central Java Indonesia. The program focuses on increasing avocado seeds and their quality through grafting techniques and using organic fertilizers. The method of community empowerment uses training with tutorials, accompaniment farmers in using grafting techniques for avocado and making organic fertilizers from cow dung, and evaluating programs. to collect data, this study used questionnaires, interviews, and observation. This study used descriptive analysis to describe the findings of this study. The results 80% of farmers of Watuaji village can practice the grafting technique for avocados, this technique aims to increase avocado seeds. And 75% of farmers can make organic fertilizers from cow dung to increase the quality of avocados in Watuaji. The results of evaluation of this program are 90% of participants evaluate that this program is very important and useful. The grafting technique and the use of organic fertilizers are effective strategies for increasing avocado quantity and quality in Watuaji. It indicated that this community empowerment program for farmers in Watuaji can be implemented properly, and support Watuaji as a center of various avocados and become a tourist village.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sisno Riyoko
AU  - Noor Azizah
AU  - Shodiq Eko Ariyanto
AU  - Yayan Adi Saputro
AU  - Azzah Nor Laila
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/06/12
TI  - Empowering Farmer’s Group in Increasing Avocado Seeds Through Grafting Technique and Using Organic Fertilizers in Watuaji Jepara Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies (ICoMSi 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 287
EP  - 293
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-228-6_23
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-228-6_23
ID  - Riyoko2024
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